phuby

Aaron Patterson, the author of phuby (https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby) once explained in a talk what's good about embedding a php interpreter in ruby. The gist, as I remember was: Technically speaking, it makes no sense. It will never become anything useful. But you can make it work, and you might learn something useful along the way. IIRC, he found a couple of very interesting (and useful) issues along the way. So the answer might just be "because I can and I want to". This is the talk, IIRC: "Yak shaving is best shaving" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_Pl2x7Fgs

That sounds like a job for phuby! https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby No, not really.

LOL. Why not just go the whole hog and run wordpress inside ruby, using tenderlove's Phuby bridge/adapter/thing. https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby Demo of him actually using this to run wordpress inside rack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXERy8Y2eVo Or, you know, spend a day knocking together your own blog in rails. I guess it could be good if you are wedded to a preexisting client base which demands wordpress, even for new projects, in which case my sincerest condolences go out to you. To be fair, I'd imagine that those people who are raking in big $$$ doing WP themes must have something like this set up already.

I just so happen to have this list. http://haxe.org/doc http://github.com/scriptor/pharen http://www.mathgladiator.com/projects/kira/ http://www.scriptol.net/ http://sunra.nachtkabarett.com/ http://users.xelent.net/mlewis/tellpdf.php?seid=12457c30afd9... http://ialexi.com/portfolio/original-works/components/quirk/ And a somewhat related list: https://github.com/ryantenney/php7 Hacking the PHP compiler and standard libraries in the name of turning it into a not crappy language. https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby Phuby wraps PHP in a loving embrace. Exposes a PHP runtime in ruby https://code.google.com/p/japha/ implementation of the Java 1.4.2 library in PHP https://github.com/lunant/lisphp Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP https://code.google.com/p/php-alternative-syntax/ Scala inspired syntax for PHP https://code.google.com/p/java-

Please see the ext directory: http://github.com/tenderlove/phuby/tree/4f198354c537586aa167... and extconf.rb: http://github.com/tenderlove/phuby/blob/4f198354c537586aa167... It is quite embedded and dynamically linked.